PATIALA: Authorities have arrested six Men in the case of Retrieval of Approximately 3,000 vials of All Remdesivir and Cefoperazone Located in Bhakra Canal in Salempur along with Balsanda Cities in Punjab’s Ropar district on May 6.
While 621 vials discovered floating in the canal water were of Remdesivir, 1,456 of Cefoperazone, 849 were unlabelled.
In a media release issued Friday, authorities also claimed to have captured Rs two crore money and four automobiles from the ownership of the accused apart regaining packaging and designs material utilized for vials.
The accused have been identified as Mohammad Shahwar in Khudda village in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, Arshad Khan in Baghpat from UP, Mohammad Arshad by Saharanpur in UP, Pradeep Saroha by Kurukshetra in Haryana, along with Shah Nazar and Shah Alam — the two taxpayers of Behlopur from Mohali.
Ropar SSP Akhil Chaudhary explained,”After the retrieval of bogus vials of Remdesivir and Cefoperazone, we instantly registered an FIR and shaped a special investigation team (SIT) to explore this situation.
The SIT, headed by SP Headquarter Ankur Gupta, included DSP along with Station House Officer of Chamkaur Sahib along with many others…
tracked the advertising address written on regained vial, which had been filed in the title of Nautwins Pharmaceuticals.
The police team found Maloya village at Chandigarh and quizzed the proprietor, who stated Mohammad Shahwar had obtained the assumptions on rent 10 months ” He also added,”After nominating the title of Mohammad Shahwar along with his aide named Shah Nazar, that had been chief accused in distribution of those fake shots, the Ropar police conducted raids in the primary office at Kala Amb along with Shahwar’s home to receive additional leads.
Meanwhile, Shahwar, that had absconded, went to Goa, Bangalore, UP, Delhi and also several different places for no less than a month to prevent arrest.
Further analyses are on samples from regained vials are delivered into Kolkata for forensic evaluation to discover which substances were used in such fake medications.” Following the retrieval of vials, a case has been registered under different sections of the IPC,” Trademark Act, Water (Prevention and Control) Act, Essential Commodities Act, Epidemic Diseases Act, Disaster Management Act and Drug and Cosmetic Act in Chamkaur Sahib Police Station.
